[Ontbirds] Little Blue Heron

2016-08-19 Thread Kit Kat via ONTBIRDS
--- Begin Message --- Little Blue Heron (juvenile) seen in Harrow, ON flying towards Holiday Beach Conservation Area (Amherstburg, ON) on Sunday August 14th around 6pm. Seen by Kit McCann  Sorry just started birding in May and only have about 200 birds under my belt.  Thought it was just a grea

[Ontbirds] Common Nighthawks on Manitoulin

2016-08-19 Thread Mark Peck
Gerry and Gwen Binsfeld just called to report Common Nighthawks starting to migrate through Manitoulin Island. Fifty birds were seen tonight and eighty were seen last night. Manitoulin Island can be reached after a long drive from southern Ontario turning left at Sudbury or by taking a ferry at

[Ontbirds] Nonquon Aug 19th

2016-08-19 Thread geoff.carpentier
the lagoons are excellent right now ... this evening I had: 3 Snipe 2 Short-billed Dowitcher 12 Killdeer 116 Lesser Yellowlegs 7 Greater Yellowlegs 24 Least Sandpiper 9 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Semipalmated Plover 1 White-rumped Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Stilt Sandpiper 2 Spotted Sandpiper

[Ontbirds] Chat at Pelee

2016-08-19 Thread Mike & Jan Austin
On August 18th Yellow-breasted Chat continues in the meadow in the middle of Redbud Footpath where I first found it 8 days ago. Jeremy Hatt refound the bird around the meadow at the north end of the footpath at 1900. Also present there yesterday were a Cape May & first-of-season Canada Warbler